Boone County NeArchives History .....Boone County By Edward Dwyer March 14, 1874
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The Columbus Era Sat Mar 14, 1874

        CORRESPONDENCE.
      Boone County, Mar 10, 1874.
Editor Columbus Era:
   Enclosed you will find two dollars, the amount opposite
my name on your subscription list; and as it is now about
time spring immigration usually sets in, I want to say a 
few words for Boone county. In taking a general look over
the county a few weeks since in search of a timber claim,
I can safely say that I found over two hundred desirable
homesteads, and several hundred more that could be called
first-class in any other locality, all vacant. Less than
three years ago there was not a single claim take in the
county. Now we have about three thousand inhabitants and
seven or eight school districts organized and in running
order. The county seat Albion, is located near the
centre of the county, on the west bank of the Beaver river.
At present the town consists of a store, school house
and harness making show. Loran Clark, the principal owner
of the town site, offers very liberal inducements to 
persons wishing to locate and commence business; but his
best offer is to any man who will erect a first class
grist mill on the Beaver. The river at Albion is about
twenty-five feet wide, two feet deep, with about a two
mile current, banks ten feet high on each side, and good
bottom.
   Our wheat crop last year averaged over twenty-two 
bushels to the acre, with several thousand acres of
just such land still vacant. As I am not in the land
locating or county seat business, but merely trying to
turn a homestead into a home, I can have no object in
making a mis-statement.
   If you will allow this space in your valuable paper, 
it may be the means of directing strangers where they
can find first-class homesteads.
                        ED. DWYER.

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